Esoteric Antenna is delighted to announce the release of the stunning new studio album by the legendary band Nektar. Throughout the 1970s Nektar released a series of acclaimed albums, scoring chart success in Germany (where the British band was based) and later in the USA (where the band relocated). Following the passing of original guitarist / vocalist Roye Albrighton in 2016, fellow founder members Derek “Mo” Moore (bass, vocals), Ron Howden (drums, vocals) & Mick Brockett (lyrics, visual conceptions) reunited along with Randy Dembo (bass, 12-string guitar), Ryche Chlanda (guitar, vocals) & Kendall Scott (keyboards) to begin work on a new album.

Formed in Przemyśl (Poland) in 2009, Arlon is a Polish progressive rock band. In 2013, the group featuring Jacek Szott (saxophone, keyboard and composition), Wiesław Rutka (guitar), Maciej Napieraj (bass), Paweł Zwirn (drums) and vocalist Paweł Szykuła, releases their first studio album ,,On The Edge”. The album receives very good reviews and in March 2014 wins the prestigious First Prize of “The Werbel 2013” (a competition for the best album of the year 2013 ) awarded by the Polish Radio Rzeszow. The year 2013 is for the band the time of promoting the album “On the Edge”. The band gives concerts in many places all over Poland, including Warsaw, Cracow, Katowice, Lublin, Rzeszów and Przemyśl. At that time the band performs at a prestigious Polish festival, the 7th Festival of Progressive Rock in Gniewkowo, and participates in the first historical concert of Rock Area On Stage in Katowice. The latter, with a guest performance of Clive Nolan ( Arena, Pendragon ), takes place on 21 November 2013.

Live in Tokyo is a live record from the reunited original lineup of Amon Duul, and while most of the members are in place, the band isn't able to recapture the spark that made their early-'70s albums prog-rock milestones. The lineup features three longtime members, Renate Knaup, Lothar Meid, and Chris Karrer, with Wolf Wolff on drums and new second guitarist Felice Occhionero, Michael Ruff on keyboards and Jan Kahlert doing percussion and vocals. Most of the material is from Nada Moonshine # and one of their best albums, Wolf City.

How's Your Mother! is the first and only album by Australian prog/psychedelic rock band Flake. This is taken from a 2006 remaster with four bonus tracks, released by the Rajon Music Group.

Released in December 1970, King Crimson's third studio album, Lizard, is often viewed as an outlier in the pioneering British prog outfit's nearly half-century discography. It's not easily grouped with 1969's stunning In the Court of the Crimson King debut and 1970 follow-up In the Wake of Poseidon, and along with 1971's Islands it's considered a transitional release on the band's path toward the relative stability of the Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973), Starless and Bible Black (1974), and Red (1974) trilogy. Plus, the Lizard sessions were difficult and the core group lineup acrimoniously collapsed immediately afterward, as bandleader/guitarist Robert Fripp, with lyricist Peter Sinfield, continued brave efforts to save King Crimson from disintegrating as the group's lengthy history was just getting underway.

The Who's second album is a less impressive outing than their debut, primarily because, at the urging of their managers, all four members penned original material (though Pete Townshend wrote more than anyone else). The pure adrenaline of My Generation also subsided somewhat as the band began to grapple with more complex melodic and lyrical themes, especially on the erratic mini-opera "A Quick One While He's Away." Still, there's some great madness on Keith Moon's instrumental "Cobwebs and Strange," and Townshend delivered some solid mod pop with "Run Run Run" and "So Sad About Us." John Entwistle was also revealed to be a writer of considerable talent (and a morbid bent) on "Whiskey Man" and "Boris the Spider." The CD reissue adds an acoustic version of "Happy Jack."

Comprised of instrumental experimental bits and pieces from previous projects, labeled as the "Hybrid Experiments 1994-1996", Sonix represents the existential exosphere of Peter Hammill's fascination with sound, created within a vacuum of time and space…

Universal Sigh is set for high gear in 2020 and beyond. Their unique “metamorphic rock” compositions are rooted in quintessential groove rock that delves into an epic, cinematic, psychedelic jazz journey. Their soulful melodies reflect peaks and valleys of emotion and their harmonious improv sparks fascination in their listeners. This year will be a very productive year for the band boasting several single debuts and the release of the band's second full-length album.

Interest in Grobschnitt led to a partial band reunion from May 2007 with Wildschwein, Milla Kapolke and Toni Moff Mollo. The band performs faithful versions of the classic material - in other words this sounds just like you remember Grobschnitt. This live show was recorded in Bonn and Menden Germany in May 2008. The material concentrates on the post-Eroc period but is highlighted by a scorching 43 minute version of Sonnentanz, which was in reality a musical sequel to Solar Music Live.

Gert Emmens Project is the progrock project from Gert. Since quite some years, Gert is making progrock besides his Electronic Music projects. There is a strong seventies feel in his progrock music. His influences are Camel, Genesis, Steve Hackett, Allan Holdsworth, UK and others. Fusion unfluences can be heard as well.
The styles crossover the Wakeman-esque style of melodic Mini-Moog runs to sweeping symphonic workouts similar to Nick Magnus & Patrick Moraz, with solos that bring the likes of Eddie Jobson (U.K.) to mind, making music that will appeal to anyone with an ear for strong melodic keyboard playing.

Traces is the second album by the British neo-prog band Nine Stones Close, that is to say, if you consider their first CD St Lo (2008) as a band effort. That album came out on an independent label and was actually a solo project of band leader and guitarist Adrian Jones. On this second album, he gathered a real band around him. Together they produced a perfect and high standard prog rock album. The music is mostly cool, relaxed and atmospheric with many guitar solos in the best Pink Floyd tradition.

Quattro teste, quattro corpi, quattro strumenti, un’anima; questo è ArcaMiri: un progetto nato dalla collaborazione fra musicisti che, seppur provenienti da esperienze a tratti molto diverse tra loro, hanno percorso negli anni il comune sentiero della sperimentazione alla ricerca di suoni, colori ed emozioni sempre nuove, fresche, estranee al consueto ricorrere di schemi mentali e compositivi.

Atrium were formed in Linha de Cascais (Lisbon) in 2003 by two long time friends Rui Godinho (Vocals and Keyboards) and Carlos 'Caito' Martins (Bass). After several line-up changes Pedro Cravo (Guitars) and Sergio Campos (Drums) became permanent band members in 2004 and 2009 respectively. Drawing influence from bands such as Genesis, Yes, Camel, Pink Floyd and Pendragon, Atrium produce Neo-Progressive Rock with hints of native folk music the band finally released their debut ablum, aptly named, "2011" in 2011 and in recent times have supported Barclay James Harvest and Asia when those bands played Lisbon. The new album Journeys and Melodies, was released on the 1st of July 2014. It is impossible to ignore this proposal to travel back in time, through some inspiring and emblematic places like Sintra, the Tower of London or the Great Wall of China. These 6 songs are the start of a great journey searching for different places and feelings. This album represents one more step towards the growth of Atrium’s national and international career and you’ll experience an amazing journey with the music of this Portuguese progressive rock band.

Indulging for the first time in Cockney Rebel's debut album – and one uses the word "indulging" deliberately, for like so much else that's this delicious, you cannot help but feel faintly sinful when it's over – is like waking up from a really weird dream, and discovering that reality is weirder still. A handful of Human Menagerie's songs are slight, even forced, and certainly indicative of the group's inexperience…